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4.45 AVERAGE
4.45 AVERAGE
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
funny
sad
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I have gone back and reread bits and pieces of this book at least 15 times since finishing it. I can’t get it out of my head. It’s just that, Jessa Hastings, indisputably (in my opinion) writes love in a way that no one else does. It buries itself under your skin so deeply that you walk through life thinking only of Julian Haites at all times (jk, kind of). This is by far one of my favorite reads of all time. It’s just so fucking good. Julian is too perfect of a man, seriously, I love him wholeheartedly. I’m not one of those people that’s rooting for him to have a HEA with some random person in the next Daisy Haites book, like I sort of love Magnolia being his one love because she was his Everest and he was her parallel galaxy and it’s all so tragic and beautiful and makes my feelings seep through my pores.
I really thought I was going to love this one but it kind of fell flat for me...
I understand the Daisy and Magnolia books take place during the same time, so there are crossover scenes. I feel like this was done so well in Daisy Haites (Book 2), where we get some of the same scenes but it still focuses on Daisy/Julian/Christian and had a ton of content that wasn't in Magnolia Parks (Book 1). But this book hardly felt new at all. We got so much repetition from Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home, with not that much new perspective for the repetition to be worthwhile. And the scenes that weren't just scenes from The Long Way Home were practically all Julian and Magnolia... I mean the title of this book is a quote that Julian says about Magnolia... and while I love Julian, I was not at all interested in this because I know full well that Magnolia and BJ will be together by the end... Julian's character is just being thrown away because every main male character in this series needs to be in love with her for some reason.
For this being a Daisy book, we really did not get enough Daisy in my opinion, and there were not enough Christian and Daisy scenes for me to be fully enraptured in their relationship.
Side note, I was really looking forward to Daisy being on her own for a bit and having some personal growth, and I was a little disappointed to read thatall of that time was off-camera and we pick right back up with her going back to Julian's house and having the same old interactions.
I hope the next Daisy book will focus on her a bit more, since Magnolia and BJ will finally be wrapped up by then.
I understand the Daisy and Magnolia books take place during the same time, so there are crossover scenes. I feel like this was done so well in Daisy Haites (Book 2), where we get some of the same scenes but it still focuses on Daisy/Julian/Christian and had a ton of content that wasn't in Magnolia Parks (Book 1). But this book hardly felt new at all. We got so much repetition from Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home, with not that much new perspective for the repetition to be worthwhile. And the scenes that weren't just scenes from The Long Way Home were practically all Julian and Magnolia... I mean the title of this book is a quote that Julian says about Magnolia... and while I love Julian, I was not at all interested in this because I know full well that Magnolia and BJ will be together by the end... Julian's character is just being thrown away because every main male character in this series needs to be in love with her for some reason.
For this being a Daisy book, we really did not get enough Daisy in my opinion, and there were not enough Christian and Daisy scenes for me to be fully enraptured in their relationship.
Side note, I was really looking forward to Daisy being on her own for a bit and having some personal growth, and I was a little disappointed to read that
I hope the next Daisy book will focus on her a bit more, since Magnolia and BJ will finally be wrapped up by then.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Daisy is ten times cooler and more admirable than Magnolia. However I do find Magnolia more likeable in the Daisy books, probably because I don’t have to read her stupid thoughts and her being such a helpless little deer-kid. I’d take Daisy over Magnolia any day. Daisy is cool. She is fun. She has aspirations outside the walls of Harrods and can take care of herself. She can cook and is somewhat down-to-earth. Not like Magnolia, who thinks everyone is beneath her if they don’t have billions of pounds to just piss away.
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
medium-paced